India - Participation and Expenditure in Education: NSS 64th Round, Schedule 25.2, July 2007 - June 2008

MoSPI-NSS
Reference ID Schedule 25.2
Year 2007 - 2008
Country India
Producer(s) National Sample Survey Office
Sponsor(s) Govt. Of India - -
Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation - -
Collection(s)
National Sample Survey
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Distance from nearest school - Upper primary class (DIST_FROM_UPPER_PRIMARY_CLASS)
File: Block-3 Household characteristics
Overview
Type: Discrete
Format: numeric
Width: 1
Decimals: 0
Valid cases: 100195
Invalid: 386
Questions and instructions
Literal question
Distance to nearest school having upper primary level classes ( code )
Categories
ValueCategoryCases
1 d<1km 16313 16.3%
2 1km <= d <2kms 69526 69.4%
3 2kms<= d <3 kms 8158 8.1%
4 3kms<= d <5kms 2204 2.2%
5 d>=5kms 3994 4.0%
Sysmiss 386
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
Interviewer instructions
To find the availability of a schools having primary, upper primary and a secondary level classes within a reasonable distance from the household, the convenient distance to the nearest such school from the household is to be ascertained in these items. It should be noted that here our objective is to capture the distance from the school having primary level /upper primary or middle level/secondary level classes and not from nearest primary/upper primary or middle /secondary level school, which may or may not be different. The distance to be covered by the usual way of transport in the normal course. The following codes are to be used for recording the distance (d):

d <1km : 1; 1km <= d < 2 kms : 2;
2km <= d < 3 kms : 3;
3kms<= d < 5 kms : 4;
d >=5 kms: 5;

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